X-ray Microscopy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

   PDF

2. Introduction to X-ray Microscopy

   • Ping-chin Cheng, Gwo-jen Jan

   Pages 1-12

3. Imaging Properties of the Soft X-ray Photon

   • David Sayre

   Pages 13-31

4. Status of X-ray Microscopy Experiments at the BESSY Laboratory

   • W. Meyer - Ilse, G. Nyakatura, P. Guttmann, B. Niemann, D. Rudolph, G. Schmahl et al.

   Pages 32-38

5. Current Status of the Göttingen Scanning X-ray Microscope - Experiments at the BESSY Storage Ring

   • B. Niemann

   Pages 39-52

6. The Beginning of Scanning X-ray Microscopy at Daresbury

   • J. M. Kenney, M. T. Browne, C. J. Buckley, R. E. Burge, R. C. Cave, P. Charalambous et al.

   Pages 53-64

7. Recent Advances in Contact Imaging of Biological Materials

   • P. C. Cheng, D. M. Shinozaki, K. H. Tan

   Pages 65-104

8. The Examination of Topographic Images in Resist Surfaces

   • D. M. Shinozaki, B. W. Robertson

   Pages 105-125

9. The Shadow Projection Type of X-ray Microscope

   • Sterling P. Newberry

   Pages 126-141

10. The Application of Synchrotron Radiation to X-ray Imaging

    • P. J. Duke

    Pages 142-161

11. Laser-produced Plasmas as Soft X-ray Sources

    • K. G. H. Baldwin, R. J. Rosser

    Pages 162-174

12. Single Shot Soft X-ray Contact Microscopy with Laboratory Laser Produced Plasmas

    • R. J. Rosser, K. G. H. Baldwin

    Pages 175-184

13. Soft X-ray Contact Imaging at CSRF

    • K. H. Tan, P. C. Cheng, D. M. Shinozaki

    Pages 185-195

14. Brief Report on the Present Status of the SRRC

    • Edward Yen

    Pages 196-212

15. Diffraction-Imaging Possibilities with Soft X-rays

    • David Sayre

    Pages 213-223

16. X-ray Microholography, Exciting Possibility or Impossible Dream?

    • Eberhard Spiller

    Pages 224-230

17. Proposal for a Phase Contrast X-ray Microscope

    • G. Schmahl, D. Rudolph

    Pages 231-238

18. Soft X-ray Microscope with Free-standing Zone Plates

    • Sadao Aoki, Yasushi Kagoshima, Hironao Yamaji, Masami, Kakuchi, Toshiaki Tamamura et al.

    Pages 239-246

19. Zone Plate Replication by Contact X-ray Lithography, and Its Application to Scanning X-ray Microscopy

    • C. J. Buckley, K. Ogawa, M. T. Browne, P. Charalambous, J. M. Kenney, R. Rosser et al.

    Pages 247-253

20. A 10keV X-ray Microprobe with Grazing Incidence Mirrors

    • Sadao Aoki, Yohichi Gohshi, Atsuo Iida

    Pages 254-262

In 1979, a conference on x-ray microscopy was organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 1983, the Second Interna­ tional Symposium on X-ray Imaging was organized by the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume contains the contributions to the symposium "X-ray Microscopy '86", held in Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China in August 1986. This is the first volume which intends to provide up-to­ date information on x-ray imaging to biologists, therefore, emphasis was given to specimen preparation techniques and image interpreta­ tion. Specimen preparation represents a major part of every microscopy work, therefore, it should be strongly emphasized in this emerging field of x-ray microscopy. Theoretically, x-ray microscopy offers the potential for the study of unfixed, hydrated biological ma­ terials. Since very few biological system can be directly observed without specimen preparation, we would like to emphasize that new information on biological specimens can only be obtained if the speci­ men is properly prepared. In the past decade, many of the published x-ray images were obtained from poorly prepared biological speci­ mens, mainly air-dried materials. Therefore, one of the goals of this conference is to bring the importance of specimen preparation to the attention of x-ray microscopy community. X-ray microscopy can be subdivided into several major areas. They are the classic x-ray projection microscope, x-ray contact imag­ ing (microradiography) and the more recent x-ray scanning micro­ scope, x-ray photoelectron microscope and x-ray imaging microscope.

• X-ray
• bone
• imaging
• microscopy
• replication

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  Ping-chin Cheng

• Department of Electrical Engineering School of Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

  Gwo-jen Jan

Policies and ethics